Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

York are either in jail dead, insane, out OF
the country or turned lformers. Who VIII
dare 10 say now that thee is no bad luck IN
thlrteenf
A ST. PAUL MAN oGera to STAKE his wife in
game OF poker agains $50 in money. The
other party agreed. andwon, but when he
came 10 see the wife he r eased all claims to
her for I5c. aud jackkue.
THE late imperial ysct Livadia, upon the
magnificent and gorgeus equipment and
embellsnmeu; OF which Alexander IL Law
lkhed so many millions roubles, has been
uenuded of her former sUmDtuOus apart
ments and decorations AID made available IS
troop snip.
JoHH VINT, an INDIAN farmer, wanted to
marry yoIng woman, D be gave his wife
deed for his 900 acre farm and IN return re.
celveo her consent to procure divorce and
marry again. The secOIn wife was pretty
girl, only u, whom Vht had met at his
daughters house. TSe couple have gone
West.
AN ORGAN GRINDER visred Riverside, Cal,
the other day, and crowd collected TO hear
the music. When he passed his hat around
he received two nickels, piece OF cracker,
pool check, three trOuser buttons. piece OF
broken plnt bottle, poker cheek ana
scrap OF city ordinance re ating to the OBJ
structlon OF streets in Riverside.
WILLIAM REEVES married Emma, the
daughter of William Laniers, OF East Grand
Forks, MINI. The old man objected, and by
the aid OF shotgun took Emma away from
william and Locked her up. lie kept her i'm
prlsoned and sued out replevln for her. Inc
case has just been tried. and the groom won
because Emma was over Is years old.
GERMANY having made a very complete
underground telegraph cable system through
out her country, France is now doing the
fha trn
are connected by cable at a cost of about
$4,000, zoo, The cables are all three or four
feet below the surface, and there is no danger
OF interruption of communication by storms.
A TEACHER in endeavoring to overthrow
the Indian belief that the earth is fiat, stands
still, anu that the sun passes over and under
1t every "a hours, said. in conclusion: $50,
you see, it is the earth that goes round. while
the sun stands still" A tall boy asked:
linen what for you tell us one story about
man IN the Bible-I forget his name-strong
warrlor-tght all day, but get dark so can't
night, and he say, sun, stand stllln What for
he say that if sun all time stand stillr'
P. T. BARNU2 has long been known as an
earnest temperance man and an advocate of
prohibition. In recent letter to the Bridge
port Standard he makes the following sugges-
ton: Until public opinion will abolish them,
1t ought to be evident to every sensible per-
son VINO will impartially examine the subject
bHdJ JneTe ouOulu DC Out one llQuOT Incense 10
every 100 male adults. These licenses shou d
be sold at auction, thoroughly advertised in
advance, starting the first bid at $780,"
IN paper printed at Freesburg, Pa, in
1918, there is an account Of a man who, while
boring for salt water near where the great
gas wells of Grapeville now are, struck gas,
which, becoming Ignlted from a fire near by
exploded, wrecking his cabin and hurt him
badly. An old gentleman who remembers
flNaa.N naTN anon 10 l.
he would bore for salt water If he had to bore
into hell 10 reach it. After the explosion the
general opinion was that he had reached his
destination.
THE photographers lens is more discerning
than the naked eye. A recent photograph of
a figure painting by an American artist
shows that a woman's gown was at first
painted hue and texture very different from
that finally chosen, the underlying brush
work appearing plainly in the photograph,
though not seen by the most attentive OBJ
server of the original picture. In like man
ner, photography reveals stars that to the
human eye are not dlstinguishable from neb-
ulous matter.
THIS is the recipe for Heavenly hash :" the
newest fashionable dish: Oranges, bananas.
lemons, apples, raisins and pineapples are
cut up into little bits, worked just enough 10
thcken their juices, and then served with a
little grated nutmeg. But the serving is the
pretty part. Cut a hole just large enough to
admit spoon in the stem end OF an orange,
and through this hole take out all the inside
of the orange, which you then ill with the
heavenly hash and serve on a pretty little
glass fruit dish with lemon or orange leaves.
A NEWLY arrived Englishman at the Ire
mont House IN Boston, after hearing some
gentlemen drinking at the bar say at each
round, "Well, boys, here we go!" said to me
''What do those gentlemen name when they
saw ere we go and yet they don't 60 Won
know-theY stav-what do they mane2" Hold
a minute is wait bit. We talk about rough
sea; an Englishman says it's nasty. beastly
A funeral can be 'jolly sad" with a York
shireman, but an American who says a wed
ding is Just lovely" is regarded as talking
nonsense.
TmRrY-THREE YEARS AGO J. NJ. Burns, OF
Burlington, KAN, walking along a railroad
track, caught his foot on a splinter Of a rail.
The wound bled profusely, but soon healed.
leaving the foot slightly sore, Recently tn
foot PANIED him, and a hard substance wa,
discovered just un1er the skin between the
fourth and small toe, where the foot had bee n
injured. Mr. Burns paid but little attention
TO IL until he saw that the hard substance had
prOtruded about quarter OF an inch, where
upon he ierked IL out and found it to be A
piece of railroad iron one inch in length.
AMONG the questions given to the pupils of
st. Louis school for examination IN order to
receive certificates of graduation, were the
following: what are the distinctive fea-
lures of paleozolc fishes as regards caudal fin
and teeth" "Expand an original enthy-
meme 20 the form Of syllogism." ''What is
the distinction between ideallsm and materi-
alism?" "Glve the classification of the mo-
Iusca to the orders" "LranSlate into Greek :
He scolds not only others, but the Judge -
They seem to have startled the parents or the
children. since one wants to know what an
enth ymeme has TO do with The common al
fairs of life.
THE accounts OF recent midwinter thunder =
storms in Missouri show that the electric fluid
was particularly energetic, Near Donlphan
it struck two trees, barked them both clear to
the ground, and set one OF them on fire near
the ground. and by morning 1t was nearly
burned down. 1t also broke a large glass in a
door. killed shote. then jumped to tele-
phone wire and ran along the wire to a resi- =
dence and knocked of some of the weather
boarding, shlvered two or three studdinR.
and lOosened two or three planks Of the floor
The wire was melted and destroyed almost
its entire length. Miss Mary Mason, who
was sleeping near telephone transmitter.
had one arm blistered ana was badly stun
ned.
"A DRINKING WOMAN at the head OF the OK =
ecutiye mansion would be-" says the Wash
ington Critic, "a public calamity, for the rea-
son that the wife of The President is in no
small degree q pattern Of public morals, or
finds wide acceptance as such IN fashions liable
circles. IL is the easiest thing III the world
for young men aud women addicted to the
mildeT forms Of social dissipation, and carry :
ing no great amount OF moral or intellectual
ballast, TO he led by conspicuous example Of
free and-easy tippling into its more perni-
CIOus Indu gcnces. Society at the national